EMAIL & SPAM
Email is now viewed as an integral tool for all business communications. But with the growth of this medium, there has also been a rise in the instances of malicious use of these facilities. Any business that utilises email in their business process must ensure they are using systems that have been correctly specified, implemented, tested and utilised. An important aspect of this is education of your staff and in-house policies, which we can help set up, initiate and monitor.
SPAM is electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited email. Spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to an email recipient.
In addition to wasting people's time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth, affecting stability and security. Because the internet is public, there is really little that can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. Latest reports state that between 10 and 20 minutes per day are spent by each employee deleting spam, reducing productivity.